Continue to pray for all of our SB ladies and their families. Pray for each woman’s health, safety and provision.
Also continue to pray for all of our staff and their families. Pray for wisdom for our staff as they continue to lead and serve the SB ladies, and that they will grow in their [...]
Dear Friends of WMF’s South Asia Communities,
I hope this letter finds each of you doing well and encouraged by the coming season. I am encouraged as I remember that Christ came and continues to desire to come in the lives of our friends in Thailand, Nepal , Kolkata and Chennai, India. It is [...]
Pray for the details of Sari Bari’s transition from a propietership to a Private Limited. Pray that we would find an honest reliable accountant, and that all the details and would be worked out for this big change. Pray especially for Sarah and Upendra as they work on these transitions!
Pray for one of [...]
Check out www.saribari.com in July to help the cause of freedom for our friends in the red light area!
A huge praise report!!! We have received and started construction on the Gach property for Sari Bari!!!!!!!! And we have also found a new building for our KG location and will be able to move out the first of July. Praise God for these answered prayers and great provision!
Pray for the construction of our new [...]
From The Sunday Times
May 17, 2009
A Life in the Day: Mariam Laskar, s*x worker
Mariam Laskar, 42, a s*x worker, the poorest r*d-light district
I wake up around 5am so I can use the latrine early, while it’s still quiet.
I share it with nine other households. Each has one room about 8ft square. Although this is a [...]
it’s 108 today. fans blowing hot air but this body of mine just can’t cool down. everything’s moving just a little slower as the summer creeps in upon us. i’ve moved my bed to the floor in hopes of discovering the sweet spot under the fan…some nights you just have to accept something closer to [...]
Check out this album to see the “before” shots of the new Sari Bari location in one of Kolkata’s largest red-light districts.
We just finalized the five-year rental contract for this space for our second location. This space will be able to provide for at least 40 women to work for Sari Bari and a small [...]
After 9 months of waiting and praying, we signed the rental contract for the new Sari Bari location today! We now have a location for Sari Bari right in the red light district. This is a huge, huge answer to prayer. I just want to scream FREEDOM! FREEDOM! and dance a little jig. i hope [...]
Entitlement is in our blood. We feel entitled to choose, to speak, to know, to listen when need be. This city has continually reminded me that these most basic forms of freedom are hardly possessed by everyone. This very day I was entitled to my opinion in regards to a woman that I had met [...]